The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
qThis book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring.qaThe New Yorker In a book that is qa must for anyone who has loved a motorcycleq (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth and hyperbole: misrepresentations about danger, about the type of people who ride and why they do so. The Perfect Vehicle is not a mere recitation of facts, nor is it a polemic or apologia. Its vivid historical accounts-the beginnings of the machine, the often hidden tradition of women who ride, the tale of the defiant ones who taunt death on the racetrack-are intertwined with Pierson's own story, which, in itself, shows that although you may think you know what kind of person rides a motorcycle, you probably don't.aquot;This book, a polished, winding meditation on the theory and fractiousness of motorcycles, celebrates both their eccentric history and the wary pleasures of touring.aquot;aThe New Yorker In a book that is aquot;a must for anyone who has loved a ...
| Title | : | The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles |
| Author | : | Melissa Holbrook Pierson |
| Publisher | : | W. W. Norton & Company - 2011-01-12 |
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